President Trump came out with an enigmatic Truth Social post Monday morning teasing progress in negotiations aimed at halting fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
“Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine???” the commander-in-chief wrote.
“Don’t believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
President Trump with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House in October 2025. Getty Images
Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a Russian strike on a residential area in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, on Nov. 24, 2025. SERGEY KOZLOV/EPA/ShutterstockSecretary of State Marco Rubio and special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff met Sunday with a delegation of top Ukrainian leaders to further develop a peace plan that could end Russia’s war on Kyiv.
The US and Ukraine described the discussions as “highly productive” in a joint statement issued by the two governments on Sunday.
US officials and the Ukrainian delegation during discussions on a US plan to end the war in Ukraine at the US Mission in Geneva, on November 23, 2025. AFP via Getty Images“The discussions showed meaningful progress toward aligning positions and identifying clear next steps,” Washington and Kyiv said in the statement. “They reaffirmed that any future agreement must fully uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty and deliver a sustainable and just peace.”
“As a result of the discussions, the parties drafted an updated and refined peace framework.”
The aftermath of the bombing that killed over 34 people on November 23, 2025, in Ternopil, Ukraine. Jack Goras/NurPhoto/ShutterstockDetails of the new framework have yet to be released, and “intensive work on joint proposals” is expected to continue over the coming days, according to the statement.
“Final decisions under this framework will be made by the Presidents of Ukraine and the United States,” it said.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte sounded a note of cautious optimism in an interview on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning.
Members of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service put out a fire on November 23, 2025. Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform/INSTARimages“It was a very successful meeting between Ukraine and the US side and they will take it forward,” said the former Dutch PM. “The plan had to be worked through and some elements had to be changed, but there was also good stuff in the plan.”
Russia has yet to indicate whether it would be open to adopting the updated US plan.
The Kremlin did not sign off on an earlier iteration of the so-called 28-point plan devised by Witkoff with input from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s henchman Kirill Dmitriev and National Security and Defence Council Secretary Rustem Umerov, who has been at the center of corruption allegations in Ukraine.
That plan — which closely mirrored prior proposals pushed by Moscow that administration officials, including Rubio, described as “maximalist” — would have seen Ukraine giving up more land than the Kremlin has been able to conquer in the Donbas, provided amnesty for war crimes and corruption, banned international security forces in Ukraine, shrunk the Ukrainian military and banned long-range weapons for Kyiv.
